Police, Emergency, and Courts

Read police and emergency services reports here on The Indiana Gazette Online. Find daily police blotters, accident reports, and roundups of emergencies handled by Indiana County area fire departments.
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More Stories for Police, Emergency, and Courts

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — At least 20 people were killed during a Carnival parade in Haiti’s capital early today when a music group’s float hit a low-hanging power line, causing them to be electrocuted, officials said. [Read More]

WAUKESHA, Wis. — One of two Wisconsin girls accused of stabbing a classmate to please the horror character Slender Man should face a lesser charge in juvenile court because she thought she had to kill her friend to protect herself and her family from the creature, her attorney argued Monday. [Read More]

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A grand jury in North Carolina indicted a man Monday on three counts of murder in the shootings of three young Muslims in what authorities have said was a dispute over parking spaces. [Read More]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — About 20 passengers, some of them screaming and trampling others, fled through emergency doors and onto the tarmac at a Los Angeles International Airport terminal Monday after someone incorrectly said an armed man was on the loose, authorities and witnesses said. [Read More]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Two men suspected of helping the gunman behind the deadly attacks in Copenhagen were jailed for 10 days today as Danes mourned the victims of a shooting spree that authorities said may have been inspired by last month’s terror attacks in Paris. [Read More]